NVIDIA Could Be Developing Super Secret Hardware Planned For Gamers – It’s Not a GPU

straxusii · 21 Sep 2013 at 19:20

It's a pair of peril-sensitive sunglasses ready for the Hawaii launch

Boomstick777 · 21 Sep 2013 at 20:21

Is it a new proprietary technology that nobody wants?

elmuzzy66. · 21 Sep 2013 at 21:03

A range of wood screws?

bru · 21 Sep 2013 at 21:39

Being slightly more sensible, maybe a titanesque aftermarket cooler for GPU's and maybe even one for the CPU aswell.

3t3P · 21 Sep 2013 at 23:17

VOLTAGE UNLOCKS

or a riser card like the old OCZ memory voltage booster, do people remember that?! It was such a random product.

d_brennen · 21 Sep 2013 at 23:21

Boomstick777 said:
Is it a new proprietary technology that nobody wants?

Likely

Rroff · 21 Sep 2013 at 23:27

3t3P said:
VOLTAGE UNLOCKS

or a riser card like the old OCZ memory voltage booster, do people remember that?! It was such a random product.

I have one somewhere (unless it got thrown out) - paired with a DFI 865PE Infinity motherboard and some at the time high end OCZ RAM

(EDIT: Oh and the obligatory Akasa Black Knight or something that was all the rage CPU cooler of the time).

Jokester · 21 Sep 2013 at 23:33

Had one of them as well, had some tasty BH5 RAM at 2-2-2-6 at 275MHz and 3.6V. Nothing much could touch them back then.

Rroff · 21 Sep 2013 at 23:38

Ah yeah the BH5 stuff had completely forgotten that.

EDIT: Heres my old post on the subject - a bit cringeworthy reading it now

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8245528&postcount=8

ToxicTBag · 21 Sep 2013 at 23:50

New "Steam Box" ? unless they are preparing a nuclear tipped response to Amd's Hawaii launch and bomb Pearl Harbour for the second time

R3X · 22 Sep 2013 at 00:12

lol Nvidia will do so much bs to stop ATIs party next week

Orangey · 22 Sep 2013 at 01:15

Steambox? Could be, no way is the Steambox going to be AMD that's for sure, what with it being Linux-powered. Plus it allows Nvidia to save some imaginary face after AMD winning both console contracts.

Rroff · 22 Sep 2013 at 01:38

Orangey said:
Steambox? Could be, no way is the Steambox going to be AMD that's for sure, what with it being Linux-powered. Plus it allows Nvidia to save some imaginary face after AMD winning both console contracts.

Seen a few people claiming intel + nvidia + valve + Oculus VR working on a gaming platform but mostly its from well not very reputable sources... however CCP and another big name developer have major IP in the works that depend on something like this to happen to be a reality and I can't see the amount of effort put into them happening without the potential for a decent sized market... so...

Yaayuh! · 22 Sep 2013 at 09:47

If it's not a graphics card, then I'm not sure i care what it is.

BlackCoat2k10 · 22 Sep 2013 at 10:01

£1 bet that it's an Nvidia keyring...

MANFACE · 22 Sep 2013 at 10:05

New Nvidia range of wood screws ?

spankingtexan · 22 Sep 2013 at 10:14

Well I hope it's 3D related, 3D vision is already awesome, what could they do to make it better I wonder?

Anyone know where Gregster's gone? aint seen any posts from him in a while.

Boomstick777 · 22 Sep 2013 at 10:50

spankingtexan said:
Anyone know where Gregster's gone? aint seen any posts from him in a while.

Maybe the rumors of AMD's Hawaii GPU being faster than the Titan was to much for him to handle?

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Diagro · 22 Sep 2013 at 12:01

Orangey said:
Steambox? Could be, no way is the Steambox going to be AMD that's for sure, what with it being Linux-powered. Plus it allows Nvidia to save some imaginary face after AMD winning both console contracts.

Why not? Why would they not go with amd? Its what's in all new consoles thus will be better to gear games for...

Who cares if Linux support isn't the best on amd... It can be improved.

Makes more sense if its got amd inside than nvidia

Bluelion · 22 Sep 2013 at 12:54

Diagro said:
Why not? Why would they not go with amd? Its what's in all new consoles thus will be better to gear games for...

Who cares if Linux support isn't the best on amd... It can be improved.

Makes more sense if its got amd inside than nvidia

AMD's Linux graphics support is a long way behind nVidia - who incidentally just spent a whole heap of resource making the Linux drivers much more reliable (and performant).

Coincidentally its also SteamBox announcement week this week. Putting the two together, this is what I'd be putting my money on for the product. Probably pretty handy that nVidia managed to secure a console at last, given AMDs success in the area.